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Militino, Ana F.

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Ana F.

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Estadística, Informática y Matemáticas

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InaMat2. Instituto de Investigación en Materiales Avanzados y Matemáticas

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  • PublicationOpen Access
    Age- and sex-specific spatio-temporal patterns of colorectal cancer mortality in Spain (1975-2008)
    (BioMed Central, 2014) Etxeberria Andueza, Jaione; Ugarte Martínez, María Dolores; Goicoa Mangado, Tomás; Militino, Ana F.; Estadística e Investigación Operativa; Estatistika eta Ikerketa Operatiboa
    In this paper, space-time patterns of colorectal cancer (CRC) mortality risks are studied by sex and age group (50-69, ≥70) in Spanish provinces during the period 1975-2008. Space-time conditional autoregressive models are used to perform the statistical analyses. A pronounced increase in mortality risk has been observed in males for both age-groups. For males between 50 and 69 years of age, trends seem to stabilize from 2001 onward. In females, trends reflect a more stable pattern during the period in both age groups. However, for the 50-69 years group, risks take an upward trend in the period 2006-2008 after the slight decline observed in the second half of the period. This study offers interesting information regarding CRC mortality distribution among different Spanish provinces that could be used to improve prevention policies and resource allocation in different regions.
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    Flexible Bayesian P-splines for smoothing age-specific spatio-temporal mortality patterns
    (SAGE, 2019) Goicoa Mangado, Tomás; Adin Urtasun, Aritz; Etxeberria Andueza, Jaione; Militino, Ana F.; Ugarte Martínez, María Dolores; Estadística, Informática y Matemáticas; Estatistika, Informatika eta Matematika; Institute for Advanced Materials and Mathematics - INAMAT2
    In this paper age-space-time models based on one and two-dimensional P-splines with B-spline bases are proposed for smoothing mortality rates, where both xed relative scale and scale invariant two-dimensional penalties are examined. Model tting and inference are carried out using integrated nested Laplace approximations (INLA), a recent Bayesian technique that speeds up computations compared to McMC methods. The models will be illustrated with Spanish breast cancer mortality data during the period 1985-2010, where a general decline in breast cancer mortality has been observed in Spanish provinces in the last decades. The results reveal that mortality rates for the oldest age groups do not decrease in all provinces.